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Headword: Numphai pidaka
Adler number: nu,591
Translated headword: nymphs [increase his] fountain
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
In the Epigrams: "Pan [increase his] herd; the Nymphs his fountain; Bacchus his refreshment."[1] See under ga/nos.[2]
Greek Original:
Numphai pidaka: en Epigrammasi: panagelên numphaipidaka, Bakche ganos. zêtei en tôi ganos.
Notes:
[1] Greek Anthology 6.158.4 (Sabinus the Grammarian): *pa\n a)ge/lhn should be two words, and nu/mfai pi/daka likewise. The first couplet of this epigram is quoted at theta 613; cf. phi 778.
[2] gamma 59.
Keywords: agriculture; food; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 6 September 2008@01:24:15.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 7 September 2008@05:47:42.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 4 December 2020@00:38:17.
Ronald Allen (typo n.1, added cross-reference) on 24 February 2023@15:01:41.
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